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Welcome to Friendship Tea, a blog about the daily happenings in the life of Linda, a tea enthusiast, who enjoys travel and trip planning, and is passionate about family, friends, life in Kentucky, and all things TEA.

I wanted to reply to your blog question, but I'm not on any of the sites listed so it wouldn't let me sign in there.

To answer your question.....if I'm in a restaurant and they bring me a cup and a pot and only the pot has water, then I put the bag in there. If they bring me a cup and a pot and both have water, I make tea in the cup first, then transfer the bag to the pot to steep a bit while I eat.

If they bring me a cup and a tea bag and it's one of the really cheap teas(my son...who is also a tea lover.... calls them "floor sweepings") then I quietly reach into my purse and get out the little tin I carry there and take out one of my own tea bags and use that instead.

It's kind of sad that a lot of restaurants that serve wonderful food and expensive brand coffees end up using the cheapest teas.

Oh...before I forget.... this past summer, I won one of the sets of tea pot salt and pepper shakers that you gave away.. just wanted to let you know that I have them on the shelf with some of my tea pots and really enjoy looking at them. :>)

My preference is to put the teabag into the pot. That way, the tea is steeped in a proportional amount of water rather than in a smaller amount of water in the cup. And, rather than trying to squeeze a second steeping from the teabag, it is fully steeped the first time in the pot. Hope that makes sense!

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A Cup of Tea

When the world is all at odds And the mind is all at sea Then cease the useless tedium And brew a cup of tea. There is magic in its' fragrance, There is solace in its' taste; And then laden moments vanish Somehow into space. And the world becomes a lovely thing! There's beauty as you'll see; All because you briefly stopped To brew a cup of tea.~ Source unknown